October 2nd
We spent two hours from first light having a seawatch at the Towers where low tide was 0938. Most of the birds we saw were flying west and we recorded 74 Dark-bellied Brent Geese, 1 Arctic Tern, 10 Wigeon, 1 Common Tern, 5 Gannets, 1 Arctic Skua, 1 Common Scoter, 2 Curlew, 15 Oystercatchers, 2 Red-throated Divers, 14 Sandwich Terns, 1 Mediterranean Gull, 1 adult Little Gull (178th) and 2 juvenile Sabine's Gulls (179th), 2 large auks E, 1 Great Skua and 10 Shelduck.
Derek Smith birded in the wind at Shuart and the railway embankment but did not see many birds, however he did find a Long-tailed Blue butterfly. The first one to be seen in the area since the small influx in 2013.

Long-tailed Blue - Derek Smith